Thanks A Lot, COVID 19!
Back in early April, when it became clear we would be hunkering indoors for at least the next month, barely getting out, and certainly not doing any traveling, I started posting on my social media accounts pictures of some wonderful vistas I took in the past in the great outdoors. I called the postings “Daily Outdoor Memory Escape”, a name I now find a bit unwieldy but I guess I’m stuck with it. And it looks very much like I’ll continue posting these for some time still, since we’ll be hunkering down in NYC a lot longer than we first assumed back in early April.
So here are the first 40 Outdoor Memory Pics, with links to the original blog posts they hail from, and which include a lot more pretty outdoor pics like them:
4/2/2020 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #1:
Grand Canyon (South Rim)
4/3/2020 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #2:
Grand Canyon (South Rim – Desert View Drive)
4/4/2020 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #3:
Rainbow Bridge at Lake Powell
4/5/2020 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #4:
Dunedin, Florida
4/6/2020 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #5:
Horseshoe Bend, Arizona
4/7/2020 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #6:
Antelope Canyon, Arizona
4/8/2020 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #7:
Colorado River, as seen from the Navajo Bridge
4/9/2020 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #8:
Grand Canyon (North Rim)
4/10/2020 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #9:
Grand-Staircase Escalante
4/11/2020 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #10:
Bryce Canyon – Peekaboo Loop Trail
4/12/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #11:
Bryce Canyon – Navajo Loop Trail
4/13/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #12:
Bryce Canyon – Amphitheater
4/14/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #13:
Zion National Park – Utah
4/15/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #14:
Hoover Dam
4/16/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #15:
Staten Island 9/11 Memorial
4/17/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #16:
Las Vegas Strip
4/18/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #17:
Trailer Park, Arizona
4/19/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #18:
Devil’s Gold Course, Death Valley
(There’s a certain malevolent golf-enthusiast who might deserve to be condemned to play this course, alone, no caddy, no one to boast to or to blame, for all eternity.)
4/20/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #19:
Valley of Fire, Nevada
4/21/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #20:
Red Rock Canyon, Nevada
4/22/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #21:
Looking out a plane window…
4/23/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #22:
Our Japanese Red Maple
… actually for this “escape” I just need to go safely outside, since although this is a “memory” from last year, it is also again a reality right now in our backyard.
4/24/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #23:
On the Staten Island ferry.
4/25/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #24:
Grand Canyon – Bright Angel Trail
4/26/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #25:
Last year’s 50th anniversary NYC Pride march
(this year’s has been cancelled…)
4/27/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #26:
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is closed this year. So let’s remember last year’s
Cherry Blossom festival:
4/28/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #27:
Notre Dame, Paris
4/29/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #28:
Versailles Fountains Nighttime Light Show
4/30/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #29:
Versailles
5/1/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #30:
46th Street, early February morning
5/2/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #31:
Approaching Versailles
5/3/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #32:
Winter lights – Madison, WI
5/4/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #33:
Looking out an airplane window…
5/5/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #34:
The Louvre
5/6/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #35:
Thinking about the courtyard outside the
Rodin museum, Paris
Overlooking the park of Versailles from the Hall of Mirrors
5/8/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #37:
Paris
5/9/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #38:
Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
5/11/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #39:
Rose garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
5/12/20 – Daily Outdoor Memory Escape #40:
Winter night scene in Central Park, NYC
Notes from a Composer 